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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 31 Mar 2020
      Replying to @VivJaye @wwahammy @Macrike

      Okay, and? Are writers never poor? Are they the 1% here sitting on piles of unearned cash? Did you miss the threads about trying to support a family on an income that pays less than minimum wage per hour of work? Or working the equivalent of a few job for years to make $2000?

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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 31 Mar 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @VivJaye and

      Yeah, fine, your life is super shitty so you don't give a shit Fine No one was talking about coming after you personally in the first place The only thing people really want from you is to not get in their face and yell at them about how much you don't give a shit about them

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    3. Viv‏ @VivJaye 31 Mar 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @wwahammy @Macrike

      Sure, but "Actually if your kid needs a book, just get them the book right now" being portrayed as "you don't give a shit about writers" is bullshit "well no one was actually coming for you" is too, actually. Because yes, I have seen the impact of having to beg for help.

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    4. Viv‏ @VivJaye 31 Mar 2020
      Replying to @VivJaye @arthur_affect and

      Like, the idea landlord thing is also bullshit, sure. Both can be true. Thing about Kant and his "all lies are immoral" thing is: fuck Kant. And it's very disappointing to watch both sides of this act like utter Kants

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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 31 Mar 2020
      Replying to @VivJaye @wwahammy @Macrike

      I'm not actually rigid about this in daily life, I know plenty of people who torrent huge amounts of shit, I freely admit I used to do so, I still watch lyric videos sometimes instead of buying the song, I too live in society, etc

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    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 31 Mar 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @VivJaye and

      The thing being that what the authors are objecting to isn't "leakage" from the system from many small scale actors, it's one very big and powerful actor from the tech sector making a big move to permanently change how the system works

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    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 31 Mar 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @VivJaye and

      It's not "Hey sometimes people steal from you but they aren't totally evil people and you have to accept that it happens" It's "We're changing the rules so a bunch of shit just isn't defined as stealing anymore and you have to live with it because you're already rich enough"

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    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 31 Mar 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @VivJaye and

      Which, if you've been paid $2000 for two years of work, and *already* been taunted "Hey look having fans doesn't equal an income, they don't owe you anything", might not go down very easy

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    9. Viv‏ @VivJaye 31 Mar 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @wwahammy @Macrike

      Sure. Question: between struggling families and entitled "fuck you I want shit for free" people, who, would you say, would more likely be able to get free books now that this particular thing was publicised?

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    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 31 Mar 2020
      Replying to @VivJaye @wwahammy @Macrike

      I dunno, probably an even split What studies there are of this show that people on the bottom of the economic ladder still have relatively low adoption of digital media (the "digital divide") and the majority of pirates are the tech savvy middle class

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 31 Mar 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @VivJaye and

      If you really try to push this through public channels as an "emergency library" you'll get more adoption from the poor But I'd bet even with this Extremely Online kerfuffle most extremely poor households still don't know what the Internet Archive is

      5:46 AM - 31 Mar 2020
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        2. Viv‏ @VivJaye 31 Mar 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @wwahammy @Macrike

          I would make the same bet. Had the "extremely online kerfuffle" gone in a more... nuanced manner, id also bet that might be different Hence my annoyance. I call that a lost opportunity

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 31 Mar 2020
          Replying to @VivJaye @wwahammy @Macrike

          You know the whole point is that because borrowing is no longer throttled it doesn't matter, since an infinite number of borrows can exist there's no way a "never would've bought" borrower can displace a "might've bought if they had to" borrower

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